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I have been having the brainstorms this week! I loved the look of the cards the Papertrey Ink design team had made that had a pull away strip (think of the pull strips on cardboard ice-cream boxes you use to open them) and I really wanted to try that technique. The PTI girls used a die which I don't have. I am picky about dies and almost only buy ones that are thick and can cut a variety of materials such as foam, burlap, mat board, metal etc, so I was not really interested in buying a die for such a novel purpose. The good news is that you can replicate this look many ways. Here is my attempt at it:
I am quite pleased with the results. In case you are wondering the seed packet and flower stamps are from Papertrey and the pointing finger is from one of those old Making Memories magnet mount stamp sets and the letters to spell "pull" are from a $1 wood peg mout Studio G set. Here is a close up of the pull tab:
There are so many ways to make the pull strip.
- You can use a perferator wheel on your paper-cutter to cut two parallel lines and connect them on the pull end.
- You can use a cutterbee perforating bug (this is the method I wanted to use but I could not find my perforating wheel!) and proceed as above.
- You can use a Basic Grey Notch and Die tool to make 2 series of strait notch lines and connect then at the pull end with the tab notch.
- You can use an x-acto knife and a metal edge ruler to cut two lines of slits and connect them at the pull end.
- You can make a template in SCAL2 (or snag my free one here) so your electronic die cutter can cut it for you. For an explanation on how to make your own custom templates in scal2 please check out my screen shots:
The file I designed will cut 4 cardfronts for a 8.5″x11″ paper, if you are using a smaller cutter like a Cricut Personal just delete the bottom two designs and use a half sheet of paper. I am using SCAL2 and a Cricut Expression and the oval end perforations did not cut all the way through but I think it has more to do with my finicky Cricut than the cutting file 🙂
***FYI SCAL3 does NOT work with Cricut Machines****
Now Let's put it together! You want to decorate the cardfront with the strip first. Then you need to stamp your sentiment on the card base. For placement I centered my cardfront on the card base and made little pencil marks on the edge at the top and bottom of the strip. Then I stamped my sentiments. Put a strip of adhesive on both sides of the pull-strip, this will keep the card from tearing when the strip is removed.
Since it is What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday I snapped a pic of mine:
I hope you try this technique it is so much fun! Thanks for stropping by and til next time happy crafting!
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Posted by Editoress on 01/25/12
The Canadian Para-cycling Team will be looking to start the 2012 track season on a high note as it prepares to compete at the 2012 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Los Angeles on February 9th to 12th.
These World Championships are critical for the Paralympic qualification, since they represent the very last track cycling event for which results will count towards the qualification process. Shortly following this important event, the International Cycling Union (UCI) will be announcing the final quota allocation for the 2012 Paralympic Games.
"These World Championships are a critical event for Canada and the World, as we are all still vying for the precious Paralympic qualification points. Our athletes have shown throughout the last few years that they are strong contenders for medals, in each of the categories," said Eric Van Den Eyde, head coach of the Canadian Para-Cycling Team.
"Notably, Robbi [Weldon] and Lyne [Bessette] showed great poise and confidence at the Para-Pan American Games in October, sweeping the event by winning gold medals in each of their races. With three medalists from the 2011 World Championships, we have a strong team heading to Los Angeles, and our goal remains to qualify teams for the Paralympic Games.
The prolific tandem of Robbi Weldon of North Bay, ON and Lyne Bessette of Knowlton, QC will be in contention to defend their 2011 UCI Track World titles in the visually impaired category. The duo, which was formed two seasons ago, have been outstanding both on the road and the track, winning the Canadian titles for the last two seasons, as well as the gold medal at the 2011 Para-Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Marie-Claude Molnar of Sainte-Adèle, QC will be racing in both the Kilo time trials, as well as the Scratch race. Molnar won the silver medal at the 2011 World Championships and set the current World Record at the 2011 Para-Pan American Games, both results coming in the Kilo time trial event.
Jaye Milley of Calgary, Alberta, will be looking to improve on his bronze medal performance from the previous World Championships in the Individual Pursuit. Milley will be racing both the Kilo and the Individual Pursuit, along with his teammate and friend Brayden McDougall, also of Calgary, in the same category.
The Canadian Para-Cycling team will participate in a small training camp prior to the World Championships, at the Home Depot Velodrome in Los Angeles.
Visually Impaired
Daniel Chalifour (Mont-Laurier, QC) / Alexandre Cloutier (Québec, QC) [Pilot] – Kilo TT, Individual Pursuit, Sprint
Brian Cowie (Burnaby, BC) / Ed Veal (Toronto, ON) [Pilot] – Kilo TT, Individual Pursuit, Sprint
Robbi Weldon (Thunder Bay, ON) / Lyne Bessette (Knowlton, QC) [Pilot] – Kilo TT, Individual Pursuit
Jaye Milley (Calgary, AB) [C1] Kilo TT, Individual Pursuit
Brayden McDougall (Calgary, AB) [C1] Kilo TT, Individual Pursuit,
Matthieu Parent (Bromont, QC) [C2] : Kilo TT, Individual Pursuit,
Eric Bourgault (Orford, QC) [C4]: Kilo TT, Individual Pursuit, Scratch
Marie-Claude Molnar (Sainte-Adèle, QC) [C4]: Kilo TT, Individual Pursuit, Scratch
Courtesy CCA
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"Every long-only manager is rolling out their long/short strategy," the chief executive officer of IndexIQ told ThinkAdvisor on Tuesday. "Something like 80% or 85% of long-only managers underperform, but now we're supposed to believe they'll somehow outperform with a more complicated long/short strategy? I don't think so."
Patti (above) pointed to two areas, in particular, that are a key to success in the space.
"The first in transparency, something liquid alternatives afford," Patti explained. "It's the entire reason we launched the firm in 2006 which, I should add, was at a time when no one was talking about alternatives."
In a few short years, he added, liquid alternatives have gone from a novelty to playing an important role in a diversified investment portfolio and the firm has seen strong interest in alternative from the institutional and retail advisor channels.
The second, he noted, is track record. The IndexIQ IQ Alpha Hedge Strategy Fund (IQHIX) marked its five-year anniversary on June 30, which the firm claims was the first such fund to market.
As for the recent poor performance of managed futures and similar strategies, Patti said it is all a question of education.
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The strategies most in demand, Patti said, are fixed income substitutes.
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Corrigan Sports Enterprises and WBAL-TV 11 announced on Wednesday an exclusive five-year extension to provide live television coverage of the annual Baltimore Running Festival.
"WBAL-TV is thrilled to continue dour partnership with the Baltimore Running Festival for another five years," said Dan Joerres, president and general manager of WBAL-TV 11. "The Running Festival has grown into one of the premier running events in the country, and WBAL-TV's live coverage from the ground, in the air and online is something television viewers in Baltimore have come to enjoy."
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Leah and Bruce McDiarmid wanted to build a front deck on their home, but the municipality didn't see their plan as being feasible. So, with the help of their friend Kara Wouters, they opted for a clever and more discreet approach that transformed the front of their home and served an important need.
On a side street close to Oak Bay Village, a surprising, cosy little sitting space that embodies wilderness and whimsy hides behind some tall pampas grasses. The couple enjoy sitting out after work to catch some late afternoon sun in their quiet new neighbourhood.
"We have met so many of our neighbours while sitting here," Leah says.
Sitting outside in front of a house is not common in most of Victoria, but Bruce and Leah, who have spent more than a decade raising their children in the comparatively small community of Tofino, are appreciating the opportunities to reach out.
Bruce especially appreciates the local array of city activities available to their boys who play soccer and rugby. "We wanted to come back to Victoria so that our two teenage sons could experience the vitality of life in a larger community," he says.
At the time of the house tour, the basement is off-limits as it is full of horizontal teenage boys still sleeping soundly at 10 a.m. on a summer morning.
"The basement is wonderful for teenage boys," says Leah, "they need a little extra space where they can bring their friends."
After looking for about a year, the couple bought in 2008 when they decided they could operate their 12-year-old Tofino Vacation Rentals business from Victoria.
"When we moved in everything was minty green - walls, carpet, everything," Leah says. "But we felt like the house was just waiting for us. It is not a large home but we loved the location and we could see that we would not have to do major renovations. Before we left Tofino, we lived in a 1,200-square-foot home with the boys. It was tight, but it worked. You just have to be organized," she says.
Their new home is larger, at 2,000 square feet. And it holds a lot of evidence of Leah's year of studying technical aspects of interior design at the local Pacific Design Academy.
Her choice of clear glass doors makes the rooms feel larger. Coved ceilings and arched doorways are accentuated with lots of art. One of the things the McDiarmids especially appreciate about living in Victoria is the opportunity to see the work of so many talented artists.
Leah designed the kitchen, filled with daylong light and backing onto a deck that offers a view of what seems like a thousand trees. The privacy is surprising when you consider they are in the heart of Oak Bay. Three kitchen doors slide open and you feel as though you are surrounded by parkland. The joy of their new eating space features prominently in regular family barbecues.
The gas stove is a critical kitchen feature for a West Coast family that has experienced plenty of power failures in their wilderness background. The problem is less likely to plague them in their city dwelling, but the couple weren't willing to take the risk.
Both Leah and Bruce enjoy growing vegetables as well as flowers they can cut for the house. Bruce has a flair for creating old-fashioned flower arrangements. "I always did that in Tofino," he says, "We like fresh flowers in our house."
The couple set up their office in what was once a guest bedroom. "We decided it was a waste of space and would make more sense to fully use it rather than have it sit empty most of the time," Bruce says.
Dingy metal furnace vents and an oldfashioned brass fireplace insert were given new life after a visit to Victoria Plating Ltd. to have them recoated. The copper glow of the fireplace insert resurfaced as a vibrant focal point in the living room.
A bowl made by master carver Henry Nola sits in the middle of the TV room. Bruce's parents commissioned Henry to make a bowl for each of their children. Bruce treasures the thoughtful gift from his father, who died a year ago.
Bruce and Leah's 16-year-old son has a big, beautiful telescope aimed from a perfectly positioned window in the family room. One of the early influences in his life was an uncle with a keen interest in astronomy.
The upstairs bathroom has the nicest view of the house - a vista of evergreens and tall cottonwoods that have housed some resident eagles. And although the house is old, there's room in the master bedroom for a king size bed. "It amazes me that a house that was built in 1937 would still be so functional," says Leah.
Bruce's family owns the world-renowned Wickaninnish Inn near Tofino, where Bruce grew up as a result of his father's adventurous decision to move from Saskatchewan to Tofino when he was a young country doctor.
"My father always dreamed of building a high-end inn that would profile the rugged coastal beauty to a worldy audience," says Bruce. "He wanted to re-create the magic of the original Wickaninnish Inn; and he succeeded better than any of us could have imagined."
"Our business is in Tofino, so we will always stay connected," says Leah, "but we love Oak Bay and our house and are very happy to be here. Victoria is such a fantastic city."
The whimsy and transformation of the house-front is finished nicely with custom doors on the garage. "The last owner was proud of the clever mechanism he built to create the carriage doors, and we just built these beautiful doors over his invention," Bruce says.
Landscape design: Pacific Organic Landscaping, Kara Wouters
Kitchen and interior design: Leah McDiarmid
Custom carriage house doors: Tedford Overhead Doors Ltd.
Kitchen reno and installation: Brad Jones Contracting
Custom deck doors: Aurora Woodwork
Interior and exterior painting: White Knight Painting
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The Economic Collapse
October 31, 2010
|Indiana Department of Workforce Development is bringing in the extra security in anticipation of an upcoming deadline when thousands upon thousands of Indiana residents could have their unemployment benefits cut off.
Did you ever think that things in America would get so bad that we would need to put armed guards into our unemployment offices? Well, that is exactly what is happening in Indiana. Armed security guards will now be posted at all 36 full-service unemployment offices in the state of Indiana. So why is this happening now? Well, Indiana Department of Workforce Development spokesman Marc Lotter says that the agency is bringing in the extra security in anticipation of an upcoming deadline when thousands upon thousands of Indiana residents could have their unemployment benefits cut off. But it is not just the state of Indiana that could have a problem. In fact, one recent study found that approximately 2 million Americans will lose their unemployment insurance benefits during this upcoming holiday season unless Congress authorizes another emergency extension of benefits by the end of November. At this point, however, that is looking less and less likely.
So perhaps all the states will have to start putting armed security guards in their unemployment offices. The truth is that frustration among unemployed Americans is growing by the day.
Could we soon see economic riots similar to what we have seen in Greece and France?
Let's hope not.
The following is a video news report about the armed guards that are going into Indiana unemployment offices….
So could things really get out of hand when thousands of unemployed workers in Indiana find out that they aren't going to get checks any longer?
Indiana Department of Workforce Development spokesman Marc Lotter makes it sound like that is very much on his mind….
"Given the upcoming expiration of the federal extensions and the increased stress on some of the unemployed, we thought added security would provide an extra level of protection for our employees and clients."
So who is paying for all of this extra security?
The Feds of course.
The additional cost of the new security will be approximately $1 million, and it will be paid for with U.S. government funds designated for the administration of the unemployment system according to Lotter.
This is not a good trend. As you go through your daily life, just start taking note of the places that now have armed security that did not have armed security five or ten years ago.
Unfortunately, as the U.S. economy goes downhill even further, the amount of security that people feel is "necessary" is likely to go up even more.
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So is America going to become an armed camp where the people and institutions with money are protected by armed guards from the hordes of frustrated unemployed workers that can't feed themselves or their families?
Americans are certainly not in a good mood about the economy. According to a recent poll conducted by CNBC, 92 percent of Americans believe that the performance of the U.S. economy is either "fair" or "poor".
The lack of jobs is the main thing that the American people are so mad about. In fact, it is hard for even highly educated people to find work in 2010. In America today, 317,000 waiters and waitresses have college degrees.
People are really hurting and they are getting to the end of their ropes. Over 41 million Americans are now on food stamps, and one out of every six Americans is enrolled in at least one federal anti-poverty program. It is getting hard to believe that this is even America anymore. For many more statistics that reveal the economic horror we are now facing as a nation, please see my previous article entitled "30 Reasons Why People Should Be Getting Really Nervous About The State Of The U.S. Economy".
But it is not just unemployment that is the problem. In recent years, millions upon millions of Americans have been forced to take reduced hours or a cut in pay due to the economy. Millions of others have had to take jobs that barely enable them to survive. In fact, the number of Americans working part-time jobs "for economic reasons" is now the highest it has been in at least five decades.
So why aren't there even close to enough jobs for everyone? Well, there are a number of contributing factors, including the fact that we have been "offshoring" and "outsourcing" millions of our jobs and now it is really starting to catch up with us. I have discussed this so many times now that I am starting to sound like a broken record.
But instead of fixing the fundamental problems with our economy, the Federal Reserve wants to print yet another gigantic pile of paper money and throw it at the problem. It is called "quantitative easing", and it may help smooth things over for a few months, but it is also going to make our long-term problems even worse.
Unfortunately, the Federal Reserve does not really seem concerned about protecting the value of the U.S. dollar at this point. Not that they ever did, but it would be nice to see Fed officials paying at least some lip service to the dangers of inflation.
Instead, various Fed officials have been publicly making statements about the need for more quantitative easing for weeks. Right now they seem desperate to put the American people back to work – even if it ends up crashing the value of the dollar.
But now even the IMF seems supportive of a dollar devaluation. On Thursday, the IMF actually said that the U.S. dollar is "overvalued" and that adjustments need to be made.
We'll see what the Fed decides to do next week. Most analysts believe that they will announce a quantitative easing program of some sort or another.
But what have we come to as a nation when those who control our economy believe that the best solution to our economic problems is to print another big pile of paper money and chuck it into the system?
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We've got an absolutely gigantic economic mess on our hands, and none of our "leaders" seem to have any idea about how to fix it.
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Multiple Grammy Award winner, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and legendary singer-songwriter Johnny Cash will be introduced to an all new audience this autumn as he makes his video game debut as a playable character in the highly anticipated Guitar Hero 5.Cash's songs are part of Guitar Hero 5's huge 80-plus set list, which also includes songs from artists such as The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and The White Stripes. The game goes on sale in September for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii.
A legend.
Bryn says: This is a bonus for me. I'm a big Johnny Cash fan and it's great to see some of the older generation get represented in a series as big as the Guitar Hero franchise. I wonder how many gamers will drop their poor taste in modern music and get into some classic rock tunes?
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After you have shot the last idol, offer the sacrifice immediately since these three idols are the statues of trinity and the symbols of three, satanic stages. Always be conscious of your intention and do not forget its meaning! Know what you are doing and why? The rituals should not mislead you to overlook your purpose. All these are "hints", so be careful to view what you are supposed to see. Procedures and techniques should not confuse you, the meanings should be understood and not the formalities.
During Hajj every action depends on and is preceded by your intention. Any action without it is not accepted. Intention is obligatory for fasting too; if you forget to say it, you will somehow feel it. The same is true during the Holy War if you do not declare the intention you are still a fighting soldier At Hajj, your acts are useless without the intention since these ceremonies are "hints", "signs" and "symbols". A person only physically touches his forehead on the ground if he does not understand the meaning of prostration. He who does not realize the essence of Hajj only brings back from Mecca a suitcase full of souvenirs and an empty mind.
During Hajj you are to:
- Declare monotheism by TAWAF.
- Exercise the struggle of Hajar by Sa'y.
- Show the descent of Adam by going to Arafat from the Kaaba.
- Show the philosophy of man's creation, the evolution of thoughts from pure science to pure love and the ascension of the spirit from mud to God by going from Arafat to Mina.
The last stage of evolution and idealism, absolute freedom with- absolute submission ... or the stage of IBRAHIM is in Mina. Now, you are about to act as Ibrahim. He brought his son Ismail to sacrifice Who is your Ismail or what is it? - Your position? Your honor? Profession? Money? House? Farm? Car? Love? Family? Knowledge? Social class? Art? Dress? Name? Your life? Your youth? Your beauty? How do I know? But you know it yourself whoever and whatever, you should have brought it with you to sacrifice here. I cannot tell you which one, but I can give you some clues to help - whatever weakens your faith, whatever stops you from "going", whatever distracts you from accepting responsibilities, whatever causes you to be self-centered, whatever makes you unable to hear the message and confess the truth whatever forces you to "escape", whatever causes you to rationalize for the sake of convenience, whatever makes you blind and deaf ... You are in the position of Ibrahim whose weakness was in his love for Ismail (his son). He was teased by Satan. Imagine yourself at the peak of honor, full of pride and there is only ONE THING for which you can give up everything and sacrifice any other love for its love. THAT IS YOUR ISMAIL! Your Ismail can be a person, an object, a rank, a position or even a "weakness"! But - for Ibrahim it was his son!
Toward the end of his life, Ibrahim witnessed a century of struggle, movement, homelessness, fighting in Holy Wars confrontation with the ignorance of his tribe, oppression of Nimrod and the fanaticism of idol worshippers. While intelligent and rebellious, he spent his youth in the house of a fanatic idol-worshipper and idol-maker (Azar). His barren wife Sara was a fanatic aristocrat.
Ibrahim undertook the difficult task of being a prophet of monotheism within an oppressive system. In that age of darkness, he tolerated a century of torture and created an awareness and love for freedom in a people who were so used to oppression.
Ibrahim got old and lonely. At the height of his prophecy he remained a "man", yet, as any other human being, he wished to have a son. His wife was infertile and he was more than a hundred years old. He was wishful, but not hopeful. Allah rewarded the old man for the time he spent and the suffering he experienced while propagating, "His message". He blessed him with a son (Ismail) from his maid, Hajar. She was a black woman who was not "honorable" enough to create jealousy in the heart of his first wife, Sara.
Ismail was not only a son for his father. He was the result of a whole life's expectation, the reward for a life full of struggle. The only son of an old father, he was the most dear after all those miserable years. For Ibrahim, Ismail was his son, but your Ismail may be "you", your family, your job, your wealth, your fame...How do I know? For Ibrahim, it was his son; such a son for such a father.
In front of his eyes - eyes that were shaded by white eyebrows and glittered with happiness - Ismail grew and received the best care and love from his father whose soul was so firmly devoted to the life of his son. His father saw him as an only sibling growing in the barren desert life of an old farmer. "Every moment of the last days of his life had to be enjoyed". He enjoyed it by having Ismail! Ismail differed from an ordinary child:
- Because his father yearned for him for a hundred years!
- Because he was unexpectedly born to the surprise of his father!
Ismail, the boy, grew as a strong tree. He brought youth and happiness to Ibrahim's life. He was his father's hope, love and kin
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After a hundred years of prophecy among the people, a life of leadership struggling with idol worshippers, ignorant and oppressors, being victorious on all fronts and successful in delivering your responsibilities, nowhere and never having any doubts in your way, disregarding any personal interest, getting as close to God as is possible for a man, establishing the nation of tawheed passing all the exams and ... Do not feel impetuous, do not rest, do not think you are hero, irresistible and having no weakness. Victories of those hundred years should not mislead you or deceive you; do not think you are "innocent". Do not feel so secure and protected from satanic temptations. You are not always immune from those invisible powers that surround mankind. There are so many beams of artificial glories that may make you blind. He (Allah) knows you better than yourself. He knows you are still vulnerable. He knows there is still a point from where you can see the world and worldly matters. Then He severs any narrow contact you may have with this world!
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God is closer to you than your jugular vein. Qur'an 50:16
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Lupa seems lethargic
Okay, I know it's been hot here, and I know she's an Alaskan Malamute, so the two are bound to make her lazy, but she seems overly lazy to me. Lupa has always been more reluctant to walk than Nikki, and during the walks will frequently lay down or sit down and won't move for some time. It just doesn't seem very normal to me. She has her crazy, zoomy moments for sure, where she's just a nutty 5 month old puppy. But something just seems off to me. The vet says she's great, but I'm still concerned.
Don't think they've gotten into ticks yet, but I'm wondering what else could make her so uninterested in walks and such. When I take her in to get spayed in a couple weeks is there anything special I should be asking the vet to check?? Hazel - any ideas???
Is she eating and drinking water normally?
Maybe she is just a bit bored??...I know my little monsters are very different than yours lol, but Guero is more of a couch potato than Bestia even though he is still a puppy.
for Lupa
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I'd get her hips checked.I know she's only a baby but I have heard of shelties having to be put down before they got to 12 months due to HD. I thought our Ben(Sheltie) was lazy when in fact he had a very bad hip.
She eats great (piggy) and drinks plenty but not excessively. She seems very normal other than the lethargy - which may just be her nature, but it seems odd. GF, she did have xrays done when she was at emerg and while it wasn't specific to her hips, I recall you could see them, so maybe it would have shown, but that said, the vet has checked her joints with manual manipulations every time we have had her in and said they were great. She still has a slight limp in her front paw, and the vet says not to worry about it, but honestly, it's at a point where it warrants worry by my book. The breeder also says not to worry about the limp, she says it could be a slow healing strain.
I don't know, just collectively it makes me worry. She doesn't seem very puppyish.... I just am curious what I should ask the vet to check while she's under for spaying and/or if she needs blood work. That said, it has crossed my mind, could any of this be from when she was sick after eating the flower bulb??
I wouldn't have her spayed until she's either okay or you figure this out.
Checking the hips and elbows is alway good. Me, if I see a limp that is prolonged, without apparent cause, I'm off to the chiro. Jazz had that, her elbow was jammed. This last time it wa her shoulder. I have no idea what thi little girl of mine is doing, but it shows in the gate of her front paws.
I missed the eating of the bulb - how bad was that episode?
My girl is also battling with something thaat makes her lethargic, but she's a pistol when on antibiotics. She had a urinary issue that had to be surgically fixed (hoping it hasn't grown back) and she is alo dealing with a clotridium perfringens infection. Vets kept telling me I was imagining things, but I hooked up with a specialist and he helped figure it out. O, I gues my point is to follow your instincts.
I would consider bloodwork and urinalysis before the spay. We started on our path here when some unexpected stuff showed up on her UA, which I just ran as a standart 1 year thing.
Just wanted to throw this thought out there too! Maybe she has some growing pains and not wanting to walk?? Does she walk with Nikki and yourself or do you take them each out seperatly?
Winston did that to me once when I took him for a really really long walk. He walked almost home and then on the way found a nice shady spot and laid down. He wouldnt budge in the slightest until he had a little rest!
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Thanks for the ideas all! I did ask the vet about growing pains (pano) and he doesn't think it's that. She's just had a clean bill of health basically.
I do walk all three dogs together most of the time. DH takes the two puppies out in the morning before it's hot. We don't walk them far, sticking very much to the 5 minutes per month, so they're really only going like two blocks and back. While the walks are on the sidewalk, they also walk on the lawns, so its not all concrete walking.
I know I worry too much, but I can't help it. Nikki is all puppy, but Lupa is a bit of a princess and a drama queen. I just want to see if anybody else has ideas that I haven't thought of yet - and I've thought of lots!
Just after we got her home MaxaLisa she chewed up a flower bulb and spent the night in emergency after she started vomiting all night. They did xrays and blood work at the time, but I don't know how comprehensive the blood panel was. I will have to ask the vet, the lethargy is not really new to Lupa, it just hasn't gone away.
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At class she is about 50/50 with her energy level. Sometimes she will do her lessons, other times she will just roll over on her side and have nothing to do with it. I am never certain if she's exhausted, lazy, stubborn or bored. I'm really thinking stubborn though .
Ticks aren't very common there, are they, DD? Not that that is any guarantee that there isn't something 'ticky' going on, but it would make other causes more likely. One thing that comes to mind is elbows. Our Evan had terrible elbows, but it took a specialist to see the tell-tale signs on an xray. Our regular vets looked at the films and couldn't see anything wrong. The signs, especially in a very young dog, can be very hard to see on rads.
We've learned to trust our instincts. Given that she's showing what you consider odd behavior, a more extensive blood panel might be in order before her spay. Did the vet do any followup bloodwork after the bulb incident to make sure the kidney and liver values were good?
Might not hurt to do a tick-borne disease screening, too. The results are not 100% accurate, but if you get a positive result, you know you need to treat. The 4DX test from Idexx lab is fairly cheap--I think it's less than $50 here--and checks for Lyme, Ehrlichiosis and Anaplasmosis. It also checks for heartworm status, in case that's something that's emergent there.
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Can you check to see if Lupa has a vitamin deficiency vitamin deficiency or is anemia ? Has she had any blood work ? You should trust your judgment, and if your vet can't find anything wrong go another vet.
We do have some ticks around Hazel, not lots, but I did have them on one of my previous dogs after a trip to Vancouver Island. These guys have not really been anywhere I would suspect ticks though, and I certainly haven't seen/felt any on them.
I really want to get a video of her when she wakes up in the morning because she limps then. I'd like to be able to show the vet. I guess I had better book her an appt before the spay appointment.
I don't think she's anemic, I'm pretty sure that would have shown up in her blood work from the emerg. visit, but you never know.
You know I don't really think it's a tick thing either, the breeder and vet both think strain, I just figure I want to think of everything.
Could it maybe be the change in the weather? I find Bayley really gets lazy the first few days when it starts to get hot until she gets used to it. Could you maybe try acupuncture for her leg?
Some ideas:
At 5 months she could be teething. That will make some lethargic, others chew like demons. If her little gums hurt she might just not feel well because of it. I used those white rope bones, two rotated, wet thoroughly, wrung out and frozen to soothe sore gums. A washcloth will do the trick. Supervise in case of swallowing.
We are having a heat wave, are you? It's supposed to be 28C here today. I noticed my winter puppy could not take the sudden heat his first summer.
Did you call poison control about the bulb? It could be that. I called once and discovered fall blooming crocus bulbs are poisonous and spring blooming ones are not. If poison control will not talk to you about a dog ask them about a human child the same weight, it's the best you can do. Or you can google, there was no internet when I called over 20 years ago.
I agree, I hope you were not going to spay her soon? There is a lot of research now to show spay/neuter, especially before puberty, is not the great thing we were all told. There's some bad along with the good. Would you like me to post links to the research list I have? There is a lot to read.
Hey all, the bulb thing was quite a while back, so I don't really think this is related, but you never know. She has had the limp for some time now, can't recall exactly how long, but well over a month. It would seem to me if it was a strain it would be better by now. The lethargy is not just heat related, she's been a lazy walker forever. She just seems to lack the stamina Nikki has. It's not new to the heat. Now saying she has no stamina did not stop her and Nikki from frolicking in the flower garden this morning at 6:00 am. I had the front door open and they both were out in the yard. I look out and there they were, both standing in the flower box digging up the dirt. Fortunately today they didn't uproot any bulbs! Then I look out and Lupa is laying on the lawn with what looks like a turd hanging out of her mouth. I go to investigate and it's a hard piece of wood that even once I had it in my hand looked like a turd! LOL
Longblades, yes please post the links and I'll take a look at them. My biggest concern with not spaying her before her heat is that we also have a male pup who is too young to be neutered. Not sure how much fuss my DH could handle about not letting them be together. I have lots of research to do.
You would absolutely have to keep them apart. I know some people send the boy out to live somewhere else for a month or so. Grandma's maybe, or a good friend.
This is a reading list of articles and papers by Veterinarians, breed clubs, trainers and others on the pros and cons of neutering or spaying your dog that I have found helpful and very educational. Most are based on extensive Veterinary research and also provide references you can check further. If you are wrestling with the question of when or whether to neuter/spay these may help. They do not all agree and one is even a rebuttal of another. One is a link to a radio show interview. One is a link to a medical testosterone suppressant not yet available in N. America but is in the U.K. and Australia. Some are not easy reading.
I think I personally found the first two in the list to be of most help and I appreciated the non-biased way the information was presented. The list is in no particular order, articles were simply added as I discovered them. If the links are not clickable I have tried to include the name of the paper and author in case you have to search for them. I hope this helps folks out and good luck with your decision. A tip, I went to my Vet to discuss the first two articles with her.
Long-Term Health Risks and Benefits Associated with Spay / Neuter in Dogs
Laura J. Sanborn, M.S.
May 14, 2007
Determining the optimal age for gonadectomy of dogs and cats,
Margaret V. Root Kustritz, dvm, phd, dact
Veterinary "Review" Article on Neutering, with Implications for Dalmatian Stone-Formers Abstracted by Carroll H. Weiss
Study Group on Urinary Stones
Research Committee
Dalmatian Club of America
Mary C. Wakeman, D.V.M.
©2003 for BREEDERVET
The Question Of Neutering and at what age
(Put together by Gregg Tonkin, Little River Labradors from postings by Pam Davol PHD and Chris Zink DVM, PhD, DACVP)
Should You Neuter Your Dog?
Ed Frawley, Leerburg Kennels * words are l e e r b u r g.com and L e e r b u r g Kennels
The Bond and Beyond for VPN December 2008
by Alice Villalobos
Will We Change on Early Spay-Neuter?
Mary C. Wakeman, D.V.M.
©2003 for BREEDERVET
New Views On Neutering
By Ruth Marrion, DVM
Non-reproductive Effects of Spaying and Neutering
Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Non-Surgical
Contraceptive Methods for Pet Population Control www.acc-d.org
SESSION OVERVIEW - Dr. John Verstegen
A non-surgical method to suppress testosterone
Pros and Cons of Neutering
E. Hardie
Department of Clinical Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.
RSPCA Admit to Spaying and Castrating Puppies AT SIX WEEKS OLD
Stan Rawlinson MTCBPT.MPAACT
Doglistener Behaviourist and Obedience Trainer
Should I spay or should I no..? -- pros and cons of Spay-neuter
Hungarian Vizsla Health Resource
Spaying and Castration (Neutering) Dogs and Cats A Stark Warning
Stan Rawlinson, a full time Dog Behaviourist and Obedience Trainer.
Spay, Neuter, and Cancer: Revisiting and Old Trinity
Myrna Milani, BS, DVM
Early Spay-Neuter Considerations for the Canine Athlete One Veterinarian's Opinion
© 2005 Chris Zink DVM, PhD, DACVP
Rebuttal to Early Spay-Neuter Considerations for the Canine Athlete
Lisa M Howe, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVS Associate Professor, Small Animal Surgery Co-Chief
Surgical Sciences Sect Dept of Vet Small Animal Clinical Sci
College of Vet Med and Biom Sciences Texas A&M Univ College Station TX 77843
Dog Talk Show #96 Tracie Hotchner (10-18-2008)
Early spay/neuter may be harming our dogs! Hear Dr. Christine Zink, DVM, PhD, DAVCP on the physical benefits of delaying neutering and trainer Parvene Farhoody on how it can reduce aggression.
Effects of breed, sex, and neuter status on trainability in dogs
James A. Serpell* and Yuying Hsu
Gonadectomy and behavior
Dr Joël Dehasse
Temperament and personality in dogs (Canis familiaris): A review and evaluation of past research
Amanda C. Jones *, Samuel D. Gosling
Evaluating the Benefits and Risks of Neutering
The SkeptVet the owner of this blog is not identified but the articles referenced are searchable.
Pediatric Spay/Neuter
Dr. Lila Miller, ASPCA
Spaying and Castration What Your Vet and the Rescue Centres May Not Tell You
Pauline Waller, member #178 Professional Association of Applied Canine Trainers, - articles referenced and searchable
To Castrate or Not? Interesting discussion regarding a young male targeted by an aggressive older male.
Non-reproductive Effects of Spaying and Neutering on Behavior in Dogs
Deborah L. Duffy, Ph.D., and James A. Serpell, Ph.D., Center for the Interaction of
Animals and Society, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
At What Age Should I Spay or Neuter My Dog or Cat?
What Are The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Neutering My Pet?
Revisiting The Idea Of Early-Age Neutering
Ron Hines DVM PhD 10/05/09
Articles and links to Veterinary organizations opposing mandatory spay/neuter
Can Spaying Make Dog Behaviour Worse?
Sophia Yin, DVM, MS March 5, 2009
The Effects of Spaying and Neutering on Canine Behaviour
James OHeare, Based on section from Aggressive Behavior in Dogs, 2006,
The Behavioural Effects of Canine Castration
Hazel Palmer, 1993 See post #8 in the chat forum at Pet Friendly World.
Does Spaying and Neutering Reduce Aggression?
Dr. Polley DVM, 2001 American Dog Breeders Association
A Healthier Respect for Ovaries (in dogs)
David J. Waters, DVM, PhD, Diplomate ACVS
Director, Center for Exceptional Longevity Studies
Gerald P. Murphy Cancer Foundation
Message for women and dogs: keeping ovaries is linked to longevity
To the Purdue Research Park, http://www.purdueresearchpark.com
Exploring mechanisms of sex differences in longevity: lifetime ovary exposure and exceptional longevity in dogs
David J. Waters,1,2 Seema S. Kengeri,1 Beth Clever,1 Julie A. Booth,1 Aimee H. Maras,1 Deborah L.
Schlittler1 and Michael G. Hayek3
AVMA: Mandatory spay/neuter a bad idea
Javma News, May 15, 2009
Veterinary Advice Online: Male Dog Neutering
Veterinary advice Online: Dog Spaying (Spaying a Female Dog)
Dr. Shauna OMeara Pet Informed: http://www.pet-informed-veterinary-a...com/index.html
Breed differences in canine aggression 1, Dec. 2008
Deborah L. Duffy, Yuying Hsub, James A. Serpella
Endogenous Gonadal Hormone Exposure and Bone Sarcoma Risk
Dawn M. Cooley, Benjamin C. Beranek, Deborah L. Schlittler, Nita W. Glickman, Lawrence T. Glickman, and David J. Waters
Pyometra in the Bitch
Jenny King
Early Spay and Neuter
Podcast with Dr. Benjamin Hart
Bone Cancer in Dogs
Dr. Jaime Modiano
Golden Retriever Study Suggests Neutering Affects Dog Health
UC Davis, News and Information. Media Contacts: Benjamin Hart, School of Veterinary Medicine, (530) 752-1555, email@example.com; Pat Bailey, UC Davis News Service, (530) 752-9843, email@example.com
Neutering Dogs: Effects on Joint Disorders and Cancers in Golden Retrievers
Gretel Torres de la Riva, Benjamin L. Hart ,XThomas B. Farver, Anita M. Oberbauer, Locksley L. McV. Messam, Neil Willits, Lynette A. Hart
Okay, I doubt I'm reading all of those... yikes. I will start with the first two. See now, I don't know anybody I could send a 6 month old Alaskan Malamute to for a month. Nor would I want to be apart from him for that long. Just the thought of shipping him off hurts me. For that alone I would be more inclined to get her fixed early. Hmmmmm - guess I better go start reading!
Thanks for the list.
too bad I don't live closer, he'd be a hoot!! Bayley would likely enjoy his company and what's a little more hair in the house!!
pattymac, don't underestimate the amount of hair a Malamute can blow! LOL. I gave them all a bath on the weekend and I have tumbleweeds of hair all over the place. DH is not amused! But nor does he help comb them so tough luck.
DD, there is an amazing vet that I take my dogs to for chiro/accupuncture/laser therapy type treatments. He is a lameness specialist and really gets how dogs are put together and why they are having issues. He is actually traveling to spain this month for the World Agility Championships as the vet chiro for Team Canada.
He lives in Pemberton and easiest to see in Whistler if you are okay with a nice day trip but does come to Vancouver every two weeks to Vancouver Animal Wellness Centre. His name is Dr. Lane. He has helped a lot of dogs I know have amazing recoveries when other vets were recommending surgery. The first session isn't cheap (approx $200) but is money well spent imo. Follow up visits run about $100. He has really helped both Riley and Stella!
A strain can take a long time to heal especially with rambunctious puppies. Stella hyper-extended her shoulder just after Christmas and it took 3-4 months before it stayed settled down (touch wood, yikes!).
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The spaying/neuter issue is a tough one. Large dogs rarely come into heat before about 10 months and can easily be much later than that. Stella was just over the 10 month mark. I have opted to wait until she is fully matured before spaying based on a lot of the research that is shown in Longblades post. My breeder also requires a minimum of one year old before she could be spayed. Her second heat was 8 months after the first one. We likely will have to do one more cycle before spaying as I am hoping to finish her conformation title and also the best timing would be about three months after the heat started so that all the organs are in their full "resting" phase.
I will spay but will choose to do the ovariectomy which leaves the uterus. The surgery is much less invasive and is the common procedure in Europe. The uterus in a dog that has gone through a heat cycle is much bigger than one that hasn't even if they haven't been bred so that is another reason I would opt for that.
The actual heat is a bit of a pain. Stella isn't all that bad to deal with but Riley was a pain in the @ss. The second heat I had xpens set up and things went a lot smoother. The actual cycle is usually three weeks but dogs are only fertile and receptive for one week of that. I did a blog post on my experience if you are interested. http://lifewithrileystella.blogspot....eat-cycle.html
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I've had 35 years of keeping intact dogs and bitches. Being in never bothers the girls, they go on eating and only start to flirt madly when they are right in. The boys are a pita! They can know weeks in advance that one is coming in. But anyway, TeriM is right, easy enough to manage if you have somewhere to lock them up separately. That would be better for you both than parting with either for even a matter of weeks.
Teri, thanks for that vet name. I will keep him in mind if things don't shape up with Lupa's limp. It is likely just a sprain/strain as the vet said, so I guess I'll give it a bit more time before I go drastic on it.
Since Nikki is not neutered I'm not sure I want to have Lupa go into heat. Our breeder says around 7 months should be fine. I'll see what the vet says, but won't go earlier than that. Since I'm not home during the day to oversee the dogs, I don't really trust DH to be vigilant enough.
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Manson's last word: New book by Calgary author and filmmaker describes final interviews with cult leader
James Buddy Day admits his heart started racing when he first heard Charles Manson profess his innocence.
It just seemed so surreal.
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"It was one of the first times I ever spoke to him," says Day, author of the new book Hippie Cult Leader: The Last Words of Charles Manson. "First of all, I didn't think I would ever speak to him again. I thought this is going to be a story I tell at parties. I was trying to ask him everything I could and, just out of the blue, he said 'I had nothing to do with killing those people,' and just launched into talking about Sharon Tate. I had goosebumps, shiver down my spine. It was this surreal moment when I was talking to Charles Manson about the murder of Sharon Tate."
The two would talk dozens of times after that in 2016. It's not that Manson hadn't professed his innocence before. But this would become Manson's final public statements about the crimes that turned him into modern history's most infamous bogeyman. He died in late 2017.
Day initially used the material — which included four hours of recorded conversations and copious notes — for the 90-minute 2017 film Charles Manson: The Final Words. The film put forward an alternate theory on the murders which Manson and members of the Manson group were convicted of committing in the summer of 1969. It asked a controversial question: Did Manson receive a fair trial?
Specifically, it zeroed in on the largely accepted narrative around the killings and Manson's role in them. It was based on a conspiracy theory put together by the district attorney's office, and later used as the basis of prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi's bestselling true-crime book Helter Skelter, that claimed Manson was a cult leader who wanted to ignite a race war by orchestrating the gruesome deaths committed by his "family" members of actress Sharon Tate and six others in separate home invasions. The film argues that the story was constructed because the prosecution needed to find a way to convict Manson on conspiracy charges despite the fact that he did not physically participate in murdering the victims.
The alternate theory that the film, and book, argues was much more banal and begins with Manson shooting a drug dealer and his fear of retaliation by the Black Panthers. It was drugs and paranoia that later led to the murders, but the film argues it had nothing to do with mind control or race wars. In the end, the film asks if Manson received a fair trial and whether the end justifies the means if prosecutors fabricate narratives to get a conviction.
A controversial premise, for sure, but one that Day says received surprisingly little flak when the film aired on Reelz channel last year. The book, which will be released Aug. 8 on the 50th anniversary of the Manson family murders, doesn't really offer any new twists in terms of the above thesis. But Day said his interviews with Manson — plus countless others involved in the Manson family and murder trial — provided way more material than his 90-minute film could use.
"In the ensuing years, so many people would ask me 'What was it like to talk to Manson?' " Days says. "I had all these stories and people seemed to find them interesting. There's just so much detail in terms of the Manson story and other explanations for the murders, so I wanted to turn it into a longer form."
So what was it like to speak to Manson? Well, it's a complicated question. The first call came when Day was on assignment for the True Crime series The Shocking Truth. Day was eating mozzarella sticks in an Applebee's in Crystal Falls, Fla., when he had a collect call from Charles Manson. Another came when he was having an earnest discussion with his son about Superman in his Calgary home. Yet another came when he was with his family over Thanksgiving dinner. Day had no idea when the calls would come, or what mood Manson would be in when they did.
"One time he called and when I said 'hello' he was in the middle of a sentence already," Day says. "He went off for 15 minutes until the phone cut off. I didn't say a word. He just had something he had to get off his chest, I guess. At the time, whatever he was saying to me … it was just gibberish. It would just depend on the day. Sometimes he would call and say 'Hey man, how's it going? Groovy.'"
Day is vice-president of factual for Calgary-based Pyramid Productions, the company created by his parents Larry Day and Kirstie McLellan Day. In the past five years, he has overseen documentaries on troubled NHL goalie Clint Malarchuk and Calgary magician and fire-eater Carisa Hendrix. But Manson has become a bit of an obsession for Day. He has made two more documentaries on the subject, including Manson: The Funeral and the upcoming Manson: The Women, which will air on NBCUniversal-owned true crime network Oxygen in August and features interviews with Manson followers Lynette (Squeaky) Fromme, Sandra Good, Catherine Share and Dianne Lake.
"To me, it's a really fascinating story, I never get bored of it," Day says. "Even in doing this latest documentary, I was finding out things I didn't know even after doing two documentaries and writing a book about it. It's a huge story that involves many people and each of those people has something different to add to it."
Hippie Cult Leader: The Last Words of Charles Manson is in stores Aug. 8.


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The magic of Christmas merges with a beloved children's story as the Shawnee Playhouse presents Kathryn Schultz Miller's "A Christmas Wizard of Oz," which opened Nov. 16 and is presented at 10 a.m. Friday and Saturday mornings up to Christmas.
The magic of Christmas merges with a beloved children's story as the Shawnee Playhouse presents Kathryn Schultz Miller's "A Christmas Wizard of Oz," which opened Nov. 16 and is presented at 10 a.m. Friday and Saturday mornings up to Christmas.
Shawnee Playhouse Executive Director Midge McClosky is directing the show and said it is a unique holiday treat. "It takes a classic story — one we all know and love — and turns it into a fresh, fun and funny fantasy," McClosky said. "It is a feel-good show, filled with well-known Christmas carols and bright, colorful costumes."
The production has Dorothy and Toto carried off by a blizzard to the Magical Elfinsland, where Glinda is the Good Witch of the North Pole. Dorothy has to get home by the morning in order to open her presents, so she travels to see the Wizard, who lives in the Great Palace of Toys.
In the show, the Scarecrow is now a snowman; the Tin Man is a tin soldier; the Cowardly Lion is a sad overpriced stuffed animal; the Flying Monkeys are flying reindeer; and the Wizard of Oz is ... you'll have to go see it to find that out.
Local favorite funny man Marty Courtney of East Stroudsburg, Pa., plays Santa Claus and a few other roles in the show. "The kids love it. All kids love 'The Wizard of Oz,' and what kid doesn't love Christmas? At the end of the show, I come down off the stage and talk to all the kids — the eyes of the little ones couldn't possibly get any bigger," he said.
Courtney added that he takes special pride in playing Santa and in making sure the theatrical experience is meaningful for every child. "I absolutely love it. I take a nice slow walk down the aisle and look up and down every row, and I make sure that I make eye contact with — or make some kind of a gesture to — every kid in the audience. I don't want to leave any kid out. They all deserve to have Santa smile at them," he said.
Janice Negvesky, a home-schooled seventh-grader who lives in Pocono Manor, Pa., plays Elvin Curly and Rosy Reindeer. Negvesky is in the show for a second straight year and apparently loves it.
"The script takes the best things from both ideas and creates a new and exciting twist, which is really something fun to watch.
"Christmas is once a year and this play captures the fun moments of the holidays that are so memorable and that the whole family can enjoy. It enriches the creativity, the memory and the magic of Christmas," she said.
McClosky said this holiday show is ideal for the entire family and a great way to introduce children to theater.
"What I love most about this show is that it is one that parents, children and grandparents can enjoy together. If you bring someone to the theater as a child, you are not only giving them the gift of entertainment for that moment, but also the love of theater for a lifetime.
"Involving children in the theater (as many as we can, as often as we can) is indeed one of our principal missions at Shawnee," she said.
McClosky said the show, which runs only at 10 a.m., has nearly sold out its weekday performances and the best seats left are for the Saturday morning shows.
McClosky added that the message of "A Christmas Wizard of Oz" was a simple one: "There's no place like home ... especially at Christmastime."


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TORONTO – After a lockout spanning almost nine weeks, about the only thing the NHL and NHL Players' Association are talking about is taking a break.
Commissioner Gary Bettman has proposed placing a two-week moratorium on talks after NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr told him that he didn't know how the sides could proceed, multiple sources told The Canadian Press on Thursday night.
The offer was made during a phone conversation on Wednesday and didn't produce an answer. According to the sources, Fehr told Bettman he would need to bounce the idea off his membership before responding.
The potential freeze comes with talks already having fallen silent after a busy stretch of meetings last week in New York. However, by the time negotiations broke last Sunday afternoon it was clear that pessimism and some bad feelings had made their way into the bargaining room.
Some of the tension can be chalked up to losses that are beginning to mount. On Thursday, players missed their third paycheque of the season while the league moved closer to making another round of game cancellations, prompting some to suggest the entire year could be in danger.
Asked about that possibility on Thursday morning, deputy commissioner Bill Daly replied: "I hope not."
"But I'm more discouraged now than I have been at any point in the process," Daly added.
The NHL is expected to start wiping games beyond Nov. 30 off the schedule early next week. There had previously been hope for a shortened 68-game season starting Dec. 1, but that now appears to be gone.
In total, the lockout has already forced the cancellation of 327 games, including the Winter Classic between the Maple Leafs and Red Wings at Michigan Stadium. The league's other big mid-season event — the Jan. 27 all-star game at Nationwide Arena in Columbus — is also expected to be formally cancelled in the near future.
Earlier this week, NHLPA special counsel Steve Fehr indicated that he thought a new CBA could be completed quickly once a breakthrough was made in negotiations.
"One thing Bill Daly and I agree upon is that when the moment is right the deal could be done very quickly," Fehr said Monday. "One days, three days or whatever."
The right moment doesn't appear to be forthcoming. Fehr also acknowledged that the union and league remained split on three major issues: the division of money, player contract rights and who pays for the damage caused by the lockout.
The lack of progress in talks has started raising fears that the NHL might lose another year to a labour dispute. Even though the 2004-05 season was cancelled by Bettman on Feb. 16, it's strongly believed the league wouldn't put the decision off that long if the 2012-13 season was to meet the same fate.
A deal that saved a 48-game season following the 1994-95 lockout was signed on Jan. 11.


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Cabrera bolts to an early lead at Quail Hollow
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The new greens at Quail Hollow proved to be a good tonic for Angel Cabrera, who made seven birdies in his round of 6-under 66 to take a two-shot lead among the early starters Thursday at the Wells Fargo Championship.
The club changed over to Bermuda greens as it prepares to host the 2017 PGA Championship.
Cabrera hasn't had a lot go right this year, making only two cuts in nine starts on the PGA Tour. But something worked in the opening round. Not only was it his best score of the year, it was only his fourth round in the 60s.
"It was a very good first round, and we have a lot to go," the Argentine said through a translator.
Jonathan Byrd and Stewart Cink each had a 68 in relatively calm, humid conditions in the morning. The wind began to pick up in the afternoon when Phil Mickelson played.
Rory McIlroy had six birdies and had to settle for a 69 when he failed to convert two good birdie chances late in his round.
Even so, he took advantage of the par 5s, which he failed to do at Augusta National last month, and was pleased to see adjustments in his putting stroke pay off.
Others at 69 included Hideki Matsuyama of Japan and Martin Kaymer, who had a wild finish to his round. Kaymer played his final four holes in 2 under without making a birdie or a par. After a bogey on the par-3 sixth, he made eagle on the par-5 seventh, chipped in for eagle from just short of the green on the par-4 eighth and then closed with a birdie.
"Two eagles in a row, pretty rare. I don't think I've ever done that before," Kaymer said. "I missed a lot of short putts today as well, so therefor, 3-under par is OK. I stayed in the tournament. But overall, it would have been nice to get a couple more shots here and there because it was possible."
Quail Hollow is three years away from hosting its first major. Cabrera is acting as if it's already here. He seems to show up only at the biggest events. His only two victories in America were at the 2009 Masters and the 2007 U.S. Open at Oakmont. He also lost to Adam Scott in a playoff at Augusta National last year.
On this day, it was simply a matter of giving himself chances and making a few putts. He holed a birdie putt from 18 feet on No. 3, and knocked in a 40-footer from just off the green at No. 11. Cabrera made five birdies in a six-hole stretch around the turn, ending at No. 12 with an approach into 5 feet.
Then, it was a matter of hanging on.
He made tough par saves on the 16th and 17th, and appeared to be in trouble well right of the 18th fairway, blocked by trees. But he carved out a beautiful shot that reached the front of the green, and he two-putted from long range for par and his 66.
"I was lucky," Cabrera said.


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HADASSI, JUDAH BEN ELIJAH HAABEL:(Redirected from JUDAH HADASSI.)
Karaite scholar, controversialist, and liturgist; flourished at Constantinople in the middle of the twelfth century. Regarding the name "ha-Abel," which signifies "mourner for Zion," see Abele Zion. Neubauer thinks that "Hadassi" means "native of Edessa" ("Aus der Petersburger Bibliothek," p. 56). Nothing of Hadassi's life is known except that he was the pupil of his elder brother Nathan. He dealt with Hebrew grammar, Masorah, theology, and philosophy, and knew Arabic and Greek well (Mordecai b. Nisan, "Dod Mordekai," ch. 11). Hadassi acquired his reputation by his "Eshkol ha-Kofer," or "Sefer ha-Peles." It is a treatise on the Commandments, in which the author endeavored to explain them philosophically, and in which he applied all his analytical talent and scholarship. The work embodies not only much of the science of his time, but even legends and folk-lore, so that it has appropriately been termed "a sea of learning." It is written in rimed prose, the general rime throughout the work being
The first commandment, affirming the existence of God, contains alphabets 1-95, in which the author treats of the duties of the created toward the Creator, dealing, for instance, with prayer, repentance, future punishment and reward, and resurrection. Beginning with alphabet 35, Hadassi treats of the nature of God, of creation (
This part is the more important as it contains Hadassi's views on exegesis and grammar. For, discussing with the Rabbinites the kinds of work permitted or forbidden on the Sabbath, he is obliged to state his exegetical rules, and he endeavors to show that the Karaites are not inferior to the Rabbinites as exegetes. After giving the thirteen rules ("middot") of R. Ishmael and the thirty-two of R. Eliezer ben Jose ha-Gelili, he gives his own, dividing them into two groups, one of sixty and one of eighty, and finding an allusion to them in Cant. vi. 8. The sixty "queens" denote the sixty grammatical rules, headed by five "kings" (the five vowels); the eighty "concubines" denote the eighty exegetical rules; and the "virgins without number" represent the numberless grammatical forms in the Hebrew language. Considering phonetics as necessary for the interpretation of the Law, Hadassi devotes to this study a long treatise, in the form of questions and answers. The fifth commandment contains alphabets 249-264, treating of the laws regulating the relations between parents and children, of inheritance, mourning, etc. The sixth contains alphabets 265-274, and the seventh, alphabets 275-336, the latter covering all the laws concerning adultery, incest, cleanliness and uncleanliness, women in childbirth, and the fruit of the first three years. The eighth commandment is discussed in alphabets 337-353, covering the laws on the different kinds of theft and fraud. The ninth embraces alphabets 354-362, in which are discussed all kinds of false witnesses, including false prophets. Finally, the tenth commandment contains alphabets 363-379, dealing with the laws implied in the prohibition against covetousness. Hadassi illustrates his explanations by examples interspersed with tales and legends.His Model and Sources.
Obviously his model was Nissim ben Noah's "Bitan ha-Maskilim," or "Peles Bi'ur ha-Miẓwot," written 370 years earlier. The sources upon which he drew included the "Ma'aseh Bereshit" of R. Ishmael; the Baraita of R. Samuel, for astronomy; the "Yosippon," for history; David al-Muḳammaṣ' work on the sects; Eldad ha-Dani, for legends; while for grammar he utilized especially the Karaite grammarians, though he also made use of the Rabbinites, quoting Judah Ḥayyuj and Ibn Janaḥ. The fact ought to be mentioned that Hadassi has included in his "Eshkol" the first grammatical work of Abraham ibn Ezra ("Moznayim," composed in Rome, 1140), without acknowledging the fact ("Monatsschrift," xl. 68 et seq.). Inattacking the Rabbinites, he followed the example of his predecessors, as Solomon ben Jeroham, Japheth b. 'Ali, Sahl b. Maẓliaḥ, and others. This work was printed at Eupatoria (1836), with an introduction by Caleb Afendopolo entitled "Naḥal Eshkol." Alphabets 99-100 and part of 98 were excluded from this edition by the censor, but have been published by Bacher in "J. Q. R." (viii. 431 et seq.). Hadassi mentions a previously written work of his entitled "Sefer Teren bi-Teren," a collection of homonyms which, he says, was an addition to the eighty pairs of Ben Asher (alphabets 163 ב, 168 ס, 173 נ). There exists also a fragment which Firkovich (Cat. No. 619, St. Petersburg) entitled "Sefer ha-Yalḳuṭ" and attributed to Hadassi, while Pinsker regarded it as an extract from Tobiah's "Sefer ha-Miẓwot." P. F. Frankl, however, agreed with Firkovich in regarding it as a part of the "Eshkol ha-Kofer," which Hadassi had previously written in prose. In the Karaite Siddur there are four piyyuṭim by Hadassi.
- Pinsker, Liḳḳuṭe Ḳadmoniyyot, p. 223; Supplement, p. 93;
- Jost, Gesch. des Judenthums, ii. 352 et seq.;
- Fürst, Gesch. des Karäert. ii. 211 et seq.:
- P. F. Frankl, in Monatsschrift, xxxi. 1-13, 72-85;
- Bacher, ib. xl. 14, 68, 109;
- J. Q. R. viii. 431 et seq.;
- Gottlober, Biḳḳoret le-Toledot ha-Ḳaraïm, p. 172;
- introduction to Eshkol ha-Kofer by Caleb Afendopolo, entitled Naḥal Eshkol.